Fox News
April 15, 2005

New charges in the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal have prompted
two questions: Was the entire program created as a result of huge
bribes going to UN officials? And, who are the unnamed high-ranking UN
officials who may have taken those bribes?

Tongsun Park, one of three men indicted by US federal prosecutors
this week, is alleged to have acted as an intermediary between the
Iraqi government and the United Nations during negotiations to set up
the Oil-for-Food program in 1992.

The United States Justice Department said Park played a major role
in bringing UN and Iraqi officials together to create Oil-for-Food and
that he acted as banker for Iraqi bribe money.

In June 1993, Park, along with Samir Vincent, an Iraqi-American
currently co-operating with authorities in their investigations,
allegedly arranged a meeting in Geneva involving two Iraqi officials
and a man identified in the US federal complaint as “U.N. Official No.
1” to discuss the proposed program.

That meeting happened in the same month as then-UN Secretary-General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali was in Geneva to discuss Iraqi oil sales with
Saddam Hussein’s deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz. Investigators are
believed to be looking at the timing of those meetings very closely.
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